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Poets of the Fall – Sappeen hiihtokeskus, P\u00e4lk\u00e4ne; December 1st, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another gig at a skiing center in the middle of nowhere. The one fall gig I hadn\u2019t really planned on going to and then bought a ticket to anyway, just because I had to see the last ones in Finland. Luckily U. was going as well and offered to give me a ride from Tampere. Now I only needed to get there \u2013 that wasn\u2019t a given, because winter had set in early in Southern Finland with heavy snowstorms. Surprisingly both my plane and train were on time and U.\u2019s pickup service worked perfectly well too. \ud83d\ude42 We picked up her brother and his girlfriend on the way, then the road led us away from civilization through a dark and snowy forest that seemed to go on forever. It was a beautiful winter wonderland outside the car\u2019s windows, but the lonely road was a bit eerie. Finally we made it trough and came out in the right spot.<\/p>\n

H. arrived at the same time we did. We walked straight into the venue and saw the Poets on stage, soundchecking. It felt like the German tour all over again only that we stayed in the back this time and didn\u2019t go to the front on the stage. \ud83d\ude42 They noticed us nonetheless. I realized that Jari wasn\u2019t there and had been replaced by Teijo once again, who was practicing the new songs. Petri came over to say hello and we hugged. I joked that this was back to the usual \u201cplane, train, middle of nowhere\u201d. The guys finished playing and left. We got drinks and set down at a table near the stage. Ollie and Captain dropped by our table to talk to me. Ollie hugged me, happy to see me there. He had thought I was not going to come. A little later, Marko came over too and we talked for a bit as well.<\/p>\n

30 minutes or so before the gig was supposed to start we took our places in front row. I smiled when I noticed the garden gnome from Mannheim was standing on Ollie\u2019s soundboard and had a brief chat with Einari who was just setting up the stage and checking equipment. T. and S. arrived \u2013 they too needed another Poets fix after the Germany tour. The gig was unusually early for Finland and started at 10:30 p.m. Until shortly before the intro started there was hardly anyone on the floor in front of the stage.<\/p>\n

The guys came out and took their places. We clapped but everyone else was pretty much unresponsive. Oh my what a letdown after the enthusiastic audience in Germany.
\nThey were mostly wearing their usual stage attire, only Marko was pretty much himself in regular jeans and without any make-up. When he turned around for the first time I grinned: On the bottom of his jeans he had stickers that read \u201cHyv\u00e4 perse\u201d (nice ass) \u2013 I didn\u2019t need translation to understand what that meant.<\/p>\n

The setlist was the same it had been for the past gigs, minus the acoustic song. The Poets played well, but this audience was really hard work. Not much singing along or clapping, not even the \u201cdishonesty\u201d part in \u2018Illusion & Dream\u2019 really worked. I still enjoyed seeing and hearing them. It especially made me happy to hear that Teijo had improved since last time and mastered the material perfectly well. He didn\u2019t need to be cued this time and played his heart out \u2013 awesome! Jari chose his replacement well.<\/p>\n

Each of the guys did what they had to to make this gig work. Ollie was dancing back and forth on stage and joking around with Jaska, Jani and Captain seemed lost in their own world. Marko went into the audience and sang from there. He turned back towards the stage when he did so I got a great view of him standing in the midst of the crowd. That was the only moment that night I regretted not bringing my camera. I shared a brief smile with T. who was standing behind Marko. On the way back to the stage, while he was climbing over the barrier, to women took the chance to grab his butt. He laughed about it once he was a safe distance from them and shook his ass in our direction. You were asking for that one!<\/p>\n

During \u2018Late Goodbye\u2019 we learned that Ollie secretly wants to be a singer. Marko held the microphone into the audience for the first chorus but didn\u2019t get all that much singing along. For the second chorus Ollie stood on tiptoes to reach up to the mic and Marko lowered it down to him, so he sang \u201cit\u2019s a late goodbye\u201d into it. Well done! \ud83d\ude42 Jani was standing right in front of me quite often so I could watch him playing from up close. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I did my best to sing along and make up for the rest of the audience together with U. and H. by my side. We certainly had fun and I hoped it wasn\u2019t too hard on the guys. When it was over we chatted for a bit, but it was too loud to talk so we decided to leave. I said goodbye and we went back to Tampere. Happily I dropped into bed, dreaming of more concerts.<\/p>\n

Poets of the Fall autumn tour – 12 gigs down, 2 to go. Next stop: MS Baltic Princess<\/p>\n

Setlist<\/span><\/p>\n

Running Out of Time
\nDiamonds for Tears
\nTemple of Thought
\nCradled in Love
\nLocking Up the Sun
\nSigns of Life
\nStay
\nIllusion and Dream
\nJeremiah Peacekeeper
\nKamikaze Love
\nMiss Impossible
\nLate Goodbye<\/p>\n

Encore:<\/em>
\nDreaming Wide Awake
\nCarnival of Rust
\nLift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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